Have you ever wanted to learn how to make jewelry? Now is your chance, at the Jewlerymakers Faire in Carmichael, Calif, near Sacramento on Saturday, September 20. You will learn how to solder, forge, bend, twist, sculpt and paint metals, and set stones and designs. Each participant will be able to complete 4 jewelry projects. […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Have you seen this plug? GARG! Shin guard armor – sturdy! MAKE Flickr pool MIDI party PIC invaders – animated! IC golden legs Trumpet marine on Governor’s Island Ballistic chicken.
Now for the real thing – Poul Beckmann takes incredible photos of beetles – there’s lots of info about them if you poke around the site. I especially like the element of surprise here with no thumbnails. He sells posters here.
Glass wants to be round, glass wants to be warm all through or it breaks; it’s very hard to work with – which makes all these delicate pointy bits even more impressive. Wesley Fleming glass sculpture, via peacay
This modded old telephone from France integrates a Stompbox distortion microphone into its design for signal processing and some nice knobs at the top to tweak the audio output. Check out the parts list at the link below. SUPER LASER BLASTER CIRCUIT BEND
The Yahoo Hack Day 2008 event wrapped up this weekend and the winners have been announced. One of my favorite entries that didn’t make the cut, but is worth mentioning is SnackUpon, a Yahoo Pipes application that provides StumbleUpon-like behavior using your Delicious username as input. The output is RSS-feed based on data gathered from […]
This project details a traffic light control circuit that features twenty open collector outputs that turn on one at a time in a continuous sequential manner. The circuit makes use of the 74LSxx family of TTL integrated logic devices. The circuits are designed to drive light emitting diodes or low current, low voltage incandescent lights […]
